Malloy Lecture Features Cartoonist, Editor Art Spiegelman

It was a packed house at the Westport Library tonight for the 2019 Malloy Lecture in the Arts featuring cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate Art Spiegelman. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content. In 1992, Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative “Maus”— which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. “Maus II” continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. This is the first year since the lecture series began in 2002 that it has been held at the Library. The Malloy Lecture in the Arts series is made possible by a generous contribution from the late Westport artist Susan Malloy. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo